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Knowles’ company in Malaunay

Knowles’ company in Malaunay

Knowles’ company in Malaunay Historical Background Malaunay, exit of workers in the establishment Knowles & Co., 20th century (B&W Photography)…

Butler’s castle and city, Le Houlme

Butler’s castle and city, Le Houlme

Installed at Le Houlme since 1883 on the site of an old mill, Henry and Alfred Butler associated with leaving Charles and Thomas Holliday extend the site with the construction of new workshops, a working class city and two employers’ homes

Calendar of Paris – Rouen railway

Calendar of Paris – Rouen railway

This 1844 calendar depicting a railway commemorates the start of train travel in the Lower Seine.​
The line, almost 130 kilometres long, follows the Seine valley. Work started in May 1840 and was in English hands.

Fireback

Fireback

Fireback showing Richard Lennard, the founder at Brede Furnace, with the tools and products of his trade. His initials appear in a cartouche in the bottom right hand corner. A furnace is shown at bottom, and a wheelbarrow is tipping materials into the top of the furnace.

Drawing of a smuggler

Drawing of a smuggler

Romanticised drawing of a smuggler, with the outline of the shore with Hastings Castle, and a run in progress from a lugger, by E. Leslie Badham (1873-1945), pen and ink.

Budiccom locomotive

Budiccom locomotive

The Compagnie de Rouen had to be able to produce carriages and locomotives in order to be able to run the line. The backers of the proposed railway line between Paris and Rouen again turned to England, which already supplied many of the locomotives used in France.